#squimbus from my polls

[jumpscaregoose]

there's no way jeanne can beat artemis but I think it's relevant for the record to state that this is an actual pin I own

(made by me but still)

Propaganda under the cut.

Iron Maiden Jeanne

JEANNE MY BELOVED ok so she's this really op 11 year old who was raised to be a cult leader figurehead thing (and she is she is very much that) and she's so cool oh my god *slaps roof of iron maiden* this baby can fit so much catholic guilt in it the iron maiden isn't just a name thing she is literally inside an iron maiden for like 80% of her screen time. just casually. all her abilities are based on torture devices too (legitimacy varies but the Aesthetic prevails) her first appearance is brutally murdering three people in a tournament for fucked up cult reasons. she can also raise the dead btw but she's also really sweet and my beloved and she got done SO DIRTY in the sequels and I will NEVER stop being mad about it and a vote for jeanne is a vote for fucked up weird tween girls everywhere

Artemis

- Badass - Will never remotely fuck with a men - Transforms men that saw her naked or tried to flirt with her. Actaeon even died, eaten by his dogs. - Irritable and stubborn like other gods and goddesses

[lukadjo]

Squimbus from my polls

[squimbusfrommypolls]

Does your blorbo keep getting obliterated round one? Are they so obscure they never even MAKE the bracket? Well now they have the chance to shine!

Welcome to the Squimbus from My Polls Bracket, for characters who just can’t win! Nominate you’re Squimbus here!

Inspired by the likes of @gaybadguystournament @autismswagsummit @disability-swag-summit @ultimate-poll-tournament @ultimatepokemontournament @genderfluidfailcompetition and other such blogs

Rules:

It’s a given by now but NO REAL PEOPLE, not even a funny one

Submit as many characters you want but only submit each character once, keep it fair please

No popular characters. This is pretty broad but for a more general definition: if they’ve made it past the second round of another poll, they ain’t gonna make it in this one. I will use my own judgement for some though, so if I know they’re a fandom favorite from a big fandom I won’t let them in either

Not a rule but a statement. I will be including my own Squimbi, nepotism ftw

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Please don't vote for Mob in the upcoming Mob vs. Shallan Davar/Veil/Radiant dissociation swag poll!

Beloved mutuals, I write today to make a desperate plea for Squimbo From My Polls, as I threatened to do earlier. This is relatively unimportant and I need to be working on homework right now but this matters, To Me.

You see, Shallan, and Veil, and Radiant, my girls, my beloved, my collective poor little meow meow, soon face Shigeo Kageyama from Mob Psycho 100 in @dissociationswagcompetition's tumblr poll bracket. And folks, I love both of these blorbos. I really do. But Mob does not deserve to beat Shallan and Veil and Radiant! Shallan specifically here is the QUEEN of dissociating! And she's swagful! She deserves to sweep this entire bracket! However, the Stormlight Archive fandom is a fairly small one, and Mob Psycho's is... not. Do you know the post that's about Squimbo from an obscure manga from 2004 vs Pikachu, where Pikachu wins based on pure name recognition? I fear an impending situation like that when Shallan's system absolutely DESERVES to sweep. Friends, I know we all like Mob. I ask you to listen to my plea and vote for Shallan's system instead.

Let me start with the obvious. The mostly non-spoilery. To start, Shallan, Veil, and Radiant are a canon DID system. Yes, canon DID, that's not demonized and is accurately, fairly represented! They aren't side characters, either; Shallan's system is arguably one of the two most main characters in a book series with a very large cast! It's awesome! And Shallan, to be clear, has dissociation issues besides purely being part of a DID system as well. She is constantly emotionally dissociating to cope with life. It gives her significant memory trouble. She dissociates hard and constantly and her mental illnesses are a significant part of the narrative. And let me re-iterate: Shallan's system is so so swagful. Shallan is quippy and funny and smart, Veil is an utter badass spy, and Radiant is a master swordswoman. So much swag.

Plus, she does the whole bottling up emotions thing. I get that that's why Mob is in this poll probably and let me tell you: she does all that and more. She deserves this win.

This enough should be enough information to vote for her, but I want to give specific examples, and that gets into spoiler territory. So, a cut is in order.

TO START I want to say that Shallan dissociates so hard that the count of people that she murdered and then forgot about murdering is up to FOUR!! FOUR PEOPLE. She dissociates so hard her dissociation has a body count. All were very necessary murders which is why I do not consider this demonization. Her motives were incredibly understandable, such as self defense or necessary to save the world. Does not change the fact that she entirely forgot about them.

Also. She does not remember like half of her childhood at least, during which some of those murders took place! It is commonly suspected that she probably has more people she's killed under her belt and we just don't know about it because she forgot about them. Very little is known about Shallan's past in general because she dissociated too hard and doesn't remember it. She managed to acquire a shardblade, one of the most powerful weapons in the setting, and forgot how she got it.

Also!! She's very avoidant of things that are trauma triggers, especially if they threaten to make her remember stuff she's suppressed. It's very significant because Pattern, her spren, keeps trying to get her to confront her past and move on, and she keeps fighting this every single book. This is an ongoing, deep internal conflict, and not something brushed under the rug.

Finally: this system is so swagful guys. They She got stabbed and thrown into a room full of corpses, experienced The Horrors as they were being carried there, and still got up to continue their mission later, over the course of which they took a crossbow bolt to the head and acted like it was totally fine and the others were crazy for being worried about them, and they pulled it out solely because they couldn't talk around it. PLUS they magicked up an entire army once. Also, she's witty, and always has a quip, and she's married to another swagful guy, AND she and her husband would be down for a polyamorous triad with Kaladin if he was, which he sadly isn't. So much swag.

So please vote for my blorbo please please please I'll love you forever if you do. the end

[battymoonflower7]

ID: screenshot of tags that read #im never getting over the david ward poll #also squimbus from my polls new character type /End ID

you ever see a poll and just Know that a character lost purely because their source material is less well known than the winning character's

[shinji-hibiki]

Hello squimbi. its me tumblr user shinji-hibiki. ill give u three guesses who I think u should vote for in @squimbusfrommypolls >:*]

THATS RIGHT BABY. SHINJI HIBIKI

Shinji is a voicebank for the vocal synthesis software UTAU!!! It's like Vocaloid, but free. Shinji was released in 2010 and is considered a certified classic ;*] sadly he had been largely overlooked in favour of newer, more popular UTAUloids.

UNTIL NOW!!!!

Some fun shinji facts for u

Shinji kickstarted the trend of making visual kei-style utauloids

In fact, he has his own utau band!! Other members of his band include Nitarou Otodamaya, SOHO (whose voicebank is made of bass guitar sounds), Kotaro Mikene, Dill, and Melodic Meru.

He has three voicebanks- his original, a smooth append(Creamy), and a more versatile update (Shintanjutsu)! AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND USE THEM ALL! HE IS FREE! UTAU IS FREE!

HERE is his website, where you can download all of his voicebanks!

Now this one's just my own speculation. But... but....... He's got trans masc swag. I think his shirt is a binder and he's a couple years on T, lol.

NOW LISTEN TO HIS SEXY VOICE.

(yes, that last one is shinji, wait a few seconds lol)

ANYWAY... I hope everyone who sees this will enjoy him as much as I do!!!! I'm srsly so autistic about him. He's my favourite guy and I love his voice and charmingly old official illustration. LOL THANK U 4 READING i love u all. and im really excited to get to know more of the squimbi in this competition!!!! love MEAT

[defectivegembrain]

and what of the lost characters, too niche to win the bracket, too popular to be a squimbus?

[dailyordem]

Lembrando que amanhã às 4 da tarde horário de Brasília começa o mutirão pra fazer o nosso Gal Sal ganhar uma enquete nessa porra de site

[duraraross]

Squimbus from my polls

these posts have the same vibes imo 💯

[tournamentdirectory]

Nobody recognizes Squimbus from your polls? @squimbusfrommypolls is all about that.

[potatoattorney]

I’m not really sure on how to use kin either but blorbo is a (usually fictional) character you’re really fixated on. like you keep thinking about them and being reminded of them and you find them really fascinating, a lot more than other characters. a blorbo might be the character you like most, but they don’t have to be. someone also might get upset at seeing someone else mischaracterizing their blorbo, but that’s not necessarily always true

I think the word first came from a post about people tagging nonfandom posts with the name of a character, or as they phrased it, “blorbo from my shows”

although now I feel like it’s used most often in saying things like “my blorbo Character Name” or recognizing a character as “my friend’s blorbo”. on polls about voters’ personal favorite characters, they’ll usually say something like “your blorbo”. and if a mutual suddenly starts posting a lot about one character, you might say that they “have a new blorbo”

I think I’ve also sometimes seen people saying “my historical blorbo” to mean an actual historical figure they find really interesting or captivating, or using “blorbo and squimbus” as a stand-in for the names of some nonspecific person’s blorbos

basically if a character is significant to you then you could call them your blorbo

I'm still thinking of how I don't know how to use blorbo right btw. and kin. this kind of thing

[squimbusfrommypolls]

[sillyboysmackdown]

Littoral Cillibilli obliterated again 😔

i feel so bad for the guy like im considering getting into whatever sagan 4 alpha is just bc hes been losing so bad </3 maybe he'll do better next year if he gets any submissions..... one can only hope u_u

[wibblewomble]

That low-empathy poll has made this blog the most active it's been in like 4 years lmaooo